FROM NEUTRAL MASK TO THEATRICAL CLOWN with Sarah Petersiel and Brendan McMahon. The neutral mask is an instrument to aid us in discovering the stories we tell with our bodies. It asks us to be physically specific and essentialize our performance in order to fully inhabit each moment. It is a parallel journey with clown […]

Co-Artistic Director Sarah Petersiel teaches INTRO TO THEATRICAL CLOWN on Saturday November 21 in New York City. Enter the realm of theatrical clown in this introductory workshop! In it we’ll explore where technique meets heart to arrive at laughable stupidity. We’ll play with rhythm, looking at how tension builds and how it pops. We’ll […]

Photo caption: Josh Matthews caught in the act. Photo credit: Matt Chapman. Join us on Wed Sept 2 for a showing of our new work-in-progress. Hold on to your wallets! Keep your eyes on the art! Handcuff yourself to your gold-encrusted vacuum cleaner! Hello from Oakland. Sarah is in from Brooklyn, joining Matt and Josh […]

Co-Artistic Director Sarah Petersiel teaches a comedy workshop/fundraiser on Sunday May 31 in New York City! Here’s the info: THIS TIME WITH FEELING In this comedic acting/clown technique workshop, we look at playing emotions for comedy. We’ll explore the tools of delight, proposals and truth to do so. Rooted in clown theatre, we’ll practice […]

We’re hatching plans for this 2015 year. Will we: Play a festival? Teach workshops? Start work on a new project? Build a tiny house? Take vows of silence? Open an internet cafe? Open an internet cafe/theatre? (Two old-fashioned ideas in one!) We’re not sure. But our commitment to creating and touring comedic-ensemble-physical-theatre remains steadfast and […]

Join us in Canada’s esteemed capitol for a run of The Hunchbacks of Notre Dame at the Gladstone 10/22/14-11/1/14 We of Under the Table have a few questions: Will the good people of Ottawa be offended by The Hunchinson’s rendition of Hugo’s classic and if yes, will they be too polite to say? Will they […]

We’ve got a bicoastal summer coming up. In July, we head left with The Hunchbacks of Notre Dame to FoolsFURY’s ensemble theatre festival FURY Factory in San Francisco. Following that we fly south to LA to showcase Hunchbacks for CSSSA’s enthusiastic home crowd. Is this show open to the public? We’ll find out! In August, […]

In Feb. 2014, we bring a supertitled Hunchbacks of Notre Dame to Mexico’s largest college theatre festival – El Festival Nacional de Teatro Universitario at UNAM. Let us know if you’ll be there or have amigos to send!

It’s Nov. 1 and we’re heading home after 3 months in Århus, Denmark where we’ve been in residence at the theatre Filuren. We spent our time devising a co-production entitled Monster – an immersive show for young audiences (and their chaperones) about a plucky submarine crew and a vicious trash hole monster. For more information on Monster, […]